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That was so interesting!! So immersive and just a great read! I love the rocks you mentioned are kind of what you drew x) This was such a deep look into what your mind is like and how you shape your worlds and it was just amazing to read! Great work!

Oooh this is interesting (I got lazy and didn't read the whole thing, but I'll probably come back to it later)! I like how much thought you've put into defining the magic system, how it works and how it's viewed by others.
I really should infodump my own magic lore buuut... too much work. XD

Reply: For some reason I never talk about blood stuff even though it's kind of important. XD

Vampires can drink human or animal blood; neither is better than the other. Also, in developed countries where vampires live (like Caelum) it's possible to buy preserved animal blood in supermarkets, which most prefer to actually going out and hunting animals.

Yep, Caelum is a place where preserved blood can be a part of your everyday grocery shopping.

Reply: Oh Althea nooooo. XD
Don't mess with the vampires, just go and steal from some harmless old ladies or something--

Similar to quartz, you say? Allow a geologist to ask a million advanced questions about it. XDDD

Re: Oh, ok, lol. If you intend to do your own research, might I suggest picking up a book on Mineralogy. That will tell you all sorts of interesting things like index of refraction and other optical properties, crystal habit and polymorphs, chemical composition, including end members, and much more. It’s a great field.
As for my question, I‘m curious about its preferred crystal habit. Quartz on its own has a bunch of different forms, so throwing magic into the mix is bound to make it interesting.

Re: Introduction to Mineralogy by William D. Nesse is pretty good. They might have it as a free pdf somewhere, or a library might have it. But yeah, silicate minerals in general are pretty diverse. Given that the magic in your world seems to destablize matter, it would seem reasonable that minerals created by that process would likely share certain traits with minerals that have radioactive end members in their crystal structure, like zircons. Sometimes, zircons contain uranium, and the decay of the uranium creates "fission tracks", which is actual damage to the crystal lattice caused by the radioactive decay.